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Healthcare Triage
How's This Coronavirus Gonna Play Out?
We're still firmly on the "Don't Panic" message with the Coronavirus outbreak. This week we're going to look at a couple of scenarios for how this thing could play out.
Nature League
Predicting Future Humans - From A to B
In this episode of "From A to B", Adrian and Brit co-create a potential future human based on both realistic and absurd adaptations.
Nature League
Biodiversity and Complex Life Forms - From A to B
In this episode of "From A to B", Adrian asks Brit about the relationships between intelligence, evolution, biodiversity, and tool use.
Nature League
The Threats Facing Forests - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit gets a first-hand look at the challenges facing forests in the Rocky Mountains, including fires, drought, climate change, and pine beetles. Special thanks to Professor Diana Six at the University of...
Nature League
Nature + Performing Arts
On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of the performing arts by showing the behind-the-scenes process of putting on a production of Disney's "The Little Mermaid". Special thanks to the Missoula...
Nature League
How Do Animals Make Sounds? - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit sits down with Dr. Laurie Slovarp to explore the ways that humans and non-human animals make sounds.
A special thanks to Dr. Slovarp for collaborating on this Nature League Field Trip.
Professor Dave Explains
Cholera: Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139
What is cholera exactly? Believe it or not, this disease isn't gone, it's still an issue in various parts of the world. It's caused by Vibrio cholerae, and in particular two serotypes of this bacterium. Let's get some details!
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Speciation and Adaptive Radiation
This video explains the concept of speciation and how it occurs through natural selection and adaptation. It highlights the importance of isolation in promoting speciation, using the example of the Galapagos Islands and their endemic...
Nature League
Nature + Philosophy
In this special, 5th week edition of Nature League, Brit explores the concept of nature and life on Earth in the context of another discipline in a segment called "Nature+". In this episode, Brit is joined by philosophy professor Dr....
Nature League
Exploring Evolution and Speciation - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explains the mechanisms and nuances of evolution and speciation.
Bizarre Beasts
The Primate That Might Hold The Key to Long Distance Space Travel
To make long distance space travel possible, we need to figure out how to hibernate. But we're primates, and primates just can't do that! Or can we...?
Nature League
Exploring the Plant Kingdom - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit introduces the plant kingdom, including their origin story, relationships, adaptations, and awesomeness.
Nature League
Biodiversity and Extinction Vulnerability - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the impact of biodiversity on extinction vulnerability in terms of trophic redundancy. Article citation: Dirk Sanders, Elisa...
Nature League
Does Life on Earth Have a Voice? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explores the four main categories of communication for life on Earth, and discusses the realities of interspecies communication. Guest starring: Adrian Adams as the bit partner, Sean Kirkpatrick as...
Nature League
Nature + Engineering
On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of engineering by describing and displaying some examples of high tech and everyday biomimicry.
Nature League
Increasing Night Life of Mammals - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the increasing nocturnality of mammals around the globe. Article citation: Gaynor, K.M., Hojnowski, C.E., Carter, N.H., and...
Nature League
Adaptations at Animal Wonders - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit joins Jessi Knudsen Castaneda at Animal Wonders Montana to discuss defensive adaptations across the animal kingdom. Animal Wonders is an organization dedicated to adopting displaced wildlife and...
Nature League
What is Biodiversity? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explains the levels, dimensions, and values associated with biodiversity.
Nature League
What Are Adaptations? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit discusses physical and behavioral adaptations of life on Earth and shares some of her favorites.
Curated Video
Sierra Leone resumes timber exports, worrying environmentalists
Activists fear effort to counter falling revenue from mining could erase gains made over last 10 years to regrow country’s forests.
Curated Video
Could polio be eradicated by 2018?
Poliomyelitis – or polio – could be gone by 2018, according to the latest data from the World Health Organisation.
Only seven cases have been identified globally so far
this year.
It is...
Only seven cases have been identified globally so far
this year.
It is...
Curated Video
Not Ready for 'Mission Accomplished' as Biden Marks Tragic COVID Milestone
During the global pandemic summit, President Biden marked a "tragic milestone" of at least one million deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, and Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt Medical Center,...
Curated Video
Epidemiologist pushes back against talk of COVID-19 becoming endemic
Dr. Christopher Labos, an epidemiologist and cardiologist in Montreal, says it's too early to think COVID-19 will become a more stable and predictable endemic disease, because the world could see new variants.
Curated Video
Omicron brings hopeful signs of pandemic’s end with plenty of caveats
There is some optimism the Omicron wave could signal the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, but experts also point out many caveats because it's unclear how long immunity lasts and if it will protect against future variants.